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title: Are there not enough beetles and frogs in the tanks that he must eat… — The Jungle Book · tree and pragmatics
description: Are there not enough beetles and frogs in the tanks that he must eat Man, and on our ground too!” Who acts: tanks. A sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 1, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Jungle Book, The Jungle Book, part 1, sentence 63

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Are there not enough beetles and frogs in the tanks that he must eat Man, and on our ground too!”

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**Who acts:** tanks · **What happens:** not be, eat · **To what, where:** enough beetles, tanks, Man

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This is a sentence of «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tanks), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg236:1:63
# text = Are there not enough beetles and frogs in the tanks that he must eat Man, and on our ground too!”
1	Are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	1	expl	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
4	enough	enough	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	beetles	beetle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	frogs	frog	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tanks	tank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
11	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	Man	Man	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
21	too	too	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is a** | present |  | enough beetles and frogs and our ground |  | the tanks |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **eat** | must | the tanks | Man |  |  |  |  | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Jungle Book» by Rudyard Kipling, Project Gutenberg book 236 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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